June 2025 Merit Increases

A&P Faculty: A&P Faculty who were employed in a salaried position on or before March 10, 2025, and remain employed in a salaried position as of June 10, 2025, with no break in service and who hold a satisfactory performance rating.

Classified Employees: Classified employees who were employed in a salaried position as of March 10, 2025, and remain employed in a salaried position as of June 10, 2025, with no break in service and who received a rating of “Contributor” or above on their last performance evaluation, more recent interim evaluation, or probationary progress review.

Instructional Faculty: Instructional Faculty who were employed in a salaried position on or before March 10, 2025, and remain employed in a salaried position as of June 10, 2025, with no break in service and hold a satisfactory performance rating.

Adjunct Faculty: Academic Affairs determined that adjunct faculty who were employed on or before March 10, 2025, who taught in Fall 2024 or Spring 2025, and who hold a satisfactory performance rating are eligible for the merit increase.

Please contact Academic Affairs if you have questions regarding adjunct faculty eligibility.

Wage Employees: Wage employees who were employed in a wage position on or before March 16, 2025, and remain employed in a wage position as of June 16, 2025, with no break in service.

A&P Faculty: Eligible A&P faculty will receive the 3% merit increase effective June 10, 2025.

Classified Employees: Eligible classified employees will receive the 3% merit increase effective June 10, 2025.

Instructional Faculty: Eligible instructional faculty will receive the 3% merit increase effective June 10, 2025.

Adjunct: Eligible adjunct faculty will receive the 3% merit increase as contracts are renewed; therefore, effective dates will vary.

Wage: Eligible wage employees will receive the 3% merit increase effective June 16, 2025.

Salary data can be viewed in My Madison on June 13, 2025, for full-time staff and faculty and on June 27, 2025, for wage employees.

The merit increases are performance-based. A three-month period provides a reasonable time to assess the probationary progress of a new employee, therefore, three months of employment is required to be eligible for the merit increase.

As long as you were hired in a state agency on or before March 10, 2025, with no breaks in service, and have a satisfactory performance evaluation on file, you will be eligible for the merit increase.

No. Employees who transfer from a part-time position to a full-time position after March 10, 2025, are not eligible for the merit increase because they were not in their full-time role on March 10, 2025.

Instructional faculty on educational leave with full pay, partial pay, or without pay will receive the merit increase when they return to active working status.

This is a general increase authorized by the Commonwealth of Virginia; therefore, the merit increase is not optional and must be supported by the sponsor. Please contact the Office of Sponsored Programs if you have questions regarding grants or contracts. The merit increase is funded and paid for by the grant

Employees on leave without pay status will receive the merit increase when they return to active status.

Yes, the June 10, 2025 merit increase is performance-based. Employees must have received a rating of “Contributor” or above on their latest performance evaluation, more recent interim evaluation, or probationary progress review to be eligible to receive the merit increase.

For 12-month faculty, the order of the increases is:

• 3% merit increase first (effective June 10, 2025)
• Promotion and tenure increase next (effective June 25,2025)

For 10-month faculty, the order of the increases is:

• 3% merit increase first (effective June 10, 2025)
• Promotion and tenure increase next (effective August 25, 2025)

No. The last day worked for an employee separating effective June 10, 2025, is June 9, 2025. Therefore, the employee is not employed on June 10, 2025, and is not eligible for the merit increase.

The minimum and maximum of each classified pay band will increase by 3%.

The new Pay Bands are as follows:

 JMU FY25 Wage Pay Band Ranges (Effective June 16, 2024)

For eligible full-time employees, the June 10, 2025 merit increase will first appear in the July 1, 2025 pay advice.

For eligible wage employees, the June 16, 2025 merit increase will first appear in the July 16, 2025 pay advice.

Eligible classified and A&P faculty who work a less-than 12-month contract and are in their rest months on June 10, 2025, will receive the 3% merit increase upon return to active working status.

The merit increase is applied to base state salary only.

No. Temporary pay is additional compensation above the employee’s base salary that is paid when an agency assigns an employee to perform different key (essential) duties on an interim basis, for critical assignments associated with a special time-limited project, or for employees serving in an acting capacity in a higher-level position. Because these assignments are temporary, the additional pay associated with them is not creditable for retirement purposes. Therefore, these amounts will not be automatically adjusted effective June 10, 2025.

Otherwise-qualified employees who are on short-term disability or other paid medical leave will receive the merit increase on June 10, 2025.

Employees on long-term disability working will also have the merit increase applied to their current rate of pay. The adjustment does not apply to individuals who are on long-term disability-non-working.

Instructional faculty on educational leave with full pay, partial pay, or without pay will receive the merit increase when they return to active working status.

Employees on leave without pay are not eligible for the merit increase until they return to active working status or paid leave.

Military supplements of eligible employees on leave without pay-military will be adjusted to reflect the merit increase.